Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Only 31 Intuiclasses? (was One more suggestion...)
Message-ID: <4531@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 88 03:59:18 GMT
References: <8802210122.AA12682@jade.berkeley.edu> <1026@radio.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
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In article <1026@radio.toronto.edu> cks@radio.UUCP (Chris Siebenmann) writes:
>
> I would argue against this because it does something that's already
>easy to do (check for RAWKEY code == 0x5f) and because there are only
>31 Intuition message classes possible, and I'd like to preserve as
>many as possible for future message classes. 

Is it actually necessary to impose a limit of distinct bit positions? For the
window IDCMPFlags I can see, but isn't all Intuimessage processing done with

case CLASS1:
case CLASS2:

etc which would work just as well with 1,2,3,4... as with 1,2,4,8...?

If so (although it's entirely possible I'm overlooking something obvious)
then there might be future I-Flags such as LISTEN_FOR_WEIRD_KEYS which would
only take up 1 bit in the flags structure but which would cause your
window to receive HELPKEY, F1KEY, CURSORUPKEY, etc.

Would this be possible (desirable, compatible, insert your own adjective)?

John
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